Meet antimony. It's number 51 on the periodic table of elements, but potentially number 1 in terms of cost-efficient materials for energy storage.
And it's considered "liquid-metal", which sounds like the kind of music the older teenage boys in the neighborhood are listening to when they drive by with their car windows down -- heads banging and air guitars rockin'.
And yet here we are, putting millions of dollars of research and development into it as a practical and cost-efficient material to power our energy grid. We just need to heat this thing to 1,167°F (630.6°C) to melt it down to a liquid.
Rock on!
“The concept of a liquid-metal battery makes it unique for stationary storage. It’s not flammable, unlike lithium. And it’s resistant to capacity fade. We’ve got data on thousands of charge cycles, which is years of operation. This thing should go 20 years and still retain 95 percent of its capacity. I would invite you to find someone who has an operational 20-year-old lithium-ion battery.”
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